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This project aims to analyze skills demand and mismatches in Poland by examining online job offers, labor supply, and educational mismatches. By utilizing a new measurement method, the research will assess the institutional background of educational mismatches, propose policy recommendations, and suggest a continuous monitoring approach. The importance of vacancies in understanding labor market trends will be highlighted, focusing on skills, qualifications, and competences. Existing research and methods will be explored to provide a comprehensive analysis for future policy considerations.
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Using Escoin skillsdemandand skillsmismatchresearch Robert Pater
HorizontalEducationalMismatch:a newmethod of measurement with application to Poland • Motivation and goals of the project • Measurementframework and the role of ESCO • Online joboffers and textanalysis • Results
Project objectives • Analysefirms’ demand for: occupations, qualifications,and skills/competence, that occur in vacancies by analysis of online job offers, their detailed structure and changes in time • Analyse labour supply according to their occupation, qualifications, andskills/competencesand other characteristics • Investigate horizontal educational mismatch between potential job seekers and employers offering work
Project objectives • Assessthe institutional background of the educational mismatch and make policy recommendations • Proposea method of continuous monitoring of skillsdemand and educational mismatch; formulatepolicy recommendations for labour market and educationinstitutions as to the measurement of the laboursupplytraits (e.g. skills)
Hypotheses • Online job offers can provide detailed structural information about firms’ demand for new workers • Qualificationsand competences help better measure horizontal educational mismatch than occupations and skills • Structuralunemployment in Poland is to the highest extent connected to the field of education and competence mismatch • Choiceof educational pathway in Poland is not well motivated, and leads to educational mismatch
Importance of vacancies Part of the demand for labour, which includes non-employed workersThe measure of unmetdemand A labour market leadingindicatorVariable in search and matching models / mismatchesindices Difficulties in employing / measure of structural unemploymentMeasure of the specific structure of demand for labour: across skills / competences, qualifications, occupations
motivation • Thereare not manyresearch on the vacancy market, and theirresultsheavilydepend on the definition of a vacancy • Representativesurveys on the vacancy market lack details, such as informationaboutskills • Althoughonline job offers can be asupportfor surveys as a data source on vacancy market, the literature lacks methods and analyses of the contents of job offers • Growingneed for disagregateanalysis on the labour market, likeskills, especiallyskillsdemand
Relatedresearch • Chevalier (2011) shows that the gap in mean salaries between studied fields is smaller than within them • Boudarbat and Chernoff (2012) show that good university grades (as a proxy of work-related competences) decrease horizontal mismatch • Sgobbi and Suleman (2013) argue that general measures of mismatch cannot fully capture the multi-dimensional and job specific nature of skill mismatch • Hershbein and Kahn (2017) suggestlooking at the skill requirements in job offersto document the evolution in skill requirements for this occupation over time
Methods of previousresearch • Horizontaleducationalmismatch isusuallycomputed using subjective measures • Hard to obtaincontinuous information on the demand, and the supply of workers’ skills or, more generally, competences and qualifications • Previous online joboffersanalysesusedsubjectiveclassifications, e.g. most frequentkeywords (Deming and Kahn 2017), job title (Marinescu and Wolthoff 2016) • On a very detailed scale (individual skillsorcompetences) firms’ demand and mismatch hasbeenmeasured only from microeconomic perspective (Winterton et al. 2006, Modestino et al. 2016)
GenericSkillsclassifications • General groupings: KSAO, Spencer and Spencer (1993), Winterton et al. (2006), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (2002) • PIAAC and PISA: not for demand • ISCO-08: proxy of skillslevels • O*Net: six categories, coveringbetween one and 11 skills (35 skills) https://www.onetonline.org/find/descriptor/browse/Skills/ • Human Capital Study: 11 categories … but whichsocialskillsareimporant?
Ourframework • ISCO-08 classification of occupations;testingrepresentativeness • International Standard Classification of Education. Fields of Education and Training ISCED-F 2013, which classifies education horizontallycomparinglabour market and education • Adetailed ESCO European Commission typology of skills/competencesdictionary of skills, detaileddescriptiondemand and supply • Linkingclassificationsdescribe a joboffer from alleducationaldimensions
Gatheringjoboffers • At first, at the end of a month, thanks to a computer script • Now, joboffertitles „continuously”, jobofferstexts as many as possible • Joboffers are downloaded and saved on a server in HTML format • The data were converted into plain text (parsing) • We eliminatevery „similar” joboffersbetweenportals
Analysingjoboffers • Lemmatization of the offer text to the basic form using Morfologik-stemming-1.9.0 • Dictionaries for search (skills/competences, qualifications, occupations) and their groups with synonyms and exceptions, also lemmatized; important proper selection of classification – in some cases, few alternatives • Polish and English dictionary
Fastest developing branches • Construction (36) • Transportationand logistics (6-10) • Production (4-5, 18-20, 25 and 28-33) • Printing, photographyand advertising (13) • Engineering (34 and 38) • Artistic and audio-visual (2 and 3) • Protection and security of persons and property and installation (23 and 35) • Economyand administration(11)
Escorole • Detailedclassification (as detailed as companiesneed) • Linkingalldimensions of education (comparinglabour market and educationparticipants) • Officialclassification (can be merged with other data sources) • Can be usedunconditionally to alltypes of jobs • Can, will, and shouldchange! We can monitor the development of occupations, theirqualificationalrequirements and skillstheyuse
Application • Forecasting the business cycle • Measuringstructuralchange • OECD SkillsStrategy • NationalQualificationsStrategy • Supportinglabour market institutions • Media: Barometr Ofert Pracy
Thankyou Presenter: Robert Pater Institution: Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Zarządzania w Rzeszowie Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych w Warszawie e-mail: rpater@wsiz.rzeszow.pl r.pater@ibe.edu.pl
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